Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, was the first person to orbit the earth.
The first people to explore and map the entire Earth were born in various regions around the world, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. Notable explorers like Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, and Zheng He hailed from different countries and backgrounds.
Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar from the 3rd century BCE, is often considered the first geographer. He is known for measuring the circumference of the Earth and creating one of the earliest maps of the known world.
Eratosthenes is called the father of Geography because he was one of the first to use mathematics and systematic principles to map and study the Earth's surface. He calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy and created one of the earliest known maps of the world. His work laid the foundation for the discipline of geography.
Assyrians were of course because first it was Egypt, Adam and eye were egyptions then it was Assyrians, noah was assyrian
The first large continents appeared around 3 billion years ago during the Archean Eon. These early continents were smaller and different in composition compared to modern continents, but they marked the beginning of continental crust formation on Earth.
No animal has orbited the moon other than man. Dogs and monkeys have orbited the earth.
The name of John Glenn's space shuttle when he first orbited the Earth in 1962 was Friendship 7.
John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space
40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
Nobody has orbited space but some have orbited the earth and the moon.
I believe rats were used first, then a solitary monkey.
John Glenn orbited the earth three times oFebruary 20, 1962 becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn first orbited the Earth in 1962 upon the spaceship Friendship 7.
Earth is orbited by a large natural satellite known as the Moon.
He was 41 years old when he first orbited earth.
The first human to have orbited the earth was Yuri Gagarin.